A 17-year-old Fontana gang member accused of stabbing a rival was charged Tuesday with attempted murder.

Daniel Hernandez was part of a group that challenged two members of a rival gang, then chased them down, said Deputy District Attorney Lyle Scollon.

When the victim, an 18-year-old man, tried to open the door to his mother’s apartment, he was stabbed multiple times.

“His lung collapsed,” Scollon said.

The Fontana attack happened on Jan. 15 in an area claimed by Hernandez’s gang.

Gang officers arrested Hernandez later that day. None of the others involved – five to seven people – were caught or identified, Scollon said.

Hernandez, who was charged as an adult, was booked at West Valley Juvenile Hall in Rancho Cucamonga. His bail was set at $1.1 million, Scollon said.

Hernandez was on juvenile probation prior to the stabbing, Scollon said.

FONTANA Judge orders trial for woman in throat slashing

A judge ruled that a Rialto woman must stand trial for attempted murder after hearing testimony at a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Fontana Superior Court.

Nicole Renee Roberson, 38, is accused of slashing a man’s throat in August at Seville Park in Fontana after the man, 24, taunted players as he watched a pick-up basketball game.

Tuesday’s witnesses included the victim and two Fontana police officers, according to minutes of the hearing.

Roberson remained jailed in lieu of $1.2 million bail at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. She is next due in court Feb. 1.

POMONA Ex-hotel manager not contesting $290K theft

The former general manager of a Pomona hotel pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges that he stole nearly $300,000 from the hotel.

Heinz Juergen Gehner, 68, was accused of using several schemes to embezzle more than $290,000 in money and services from the Shilo Inn Hotel on Temple Avenue, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Gehner pleaded no contest to three counts of grand theft Tuesday in Pomona Superior Court and is scheduled to return to court Feb. 11 for sentencing.

Gehner faces a prison sentence of up to four years and four months and will be expected to pay more than $310,000 in restitution to his former employer, according to the news release.

Gehner was charged by the District Attorney’s Office on Oct. 13 and was arrested three days later by Pomona police, according to booking records.

He remained jailed without the possibility of bail at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic.

ONTARIO Police call off search for missing woman

Police now believe an Ontario woman missing for more than a week is safe.

Ana Yamileth Sepulveda, 32, was last seen about 10a.m. Jan. 9 when she left a church service to go to a nearby store, according to an Ontario news release.

Sepulveda told relatives she was on her way to buy some snacks.

Detectives learned that an ATM transaction was made from the missing woman’s account in Claremont within an hour of her disappearance.

Her car was found abandoned Wednesday at a business in the 200 block of East Holt Boulevard in Ontario with the keys in the ignition, according to the news release.

The vehicle also was found unlocked with one of Sepulveda’s shoes on the driver’s side floor of the vehicle.

Ontario police Detective Joe Crum said Wednesday the search is no longer active because authorities obtained video of the missing woman shopping. She was alone and did not appear to be in danger, Crum said.

Detectives would still like to talk to Sepulveda, he said.

Sepulveda has no history of mental illness and is described by her family as dependable. Sepulveda has been living with her two children and her in-laws for the past 17 years.

Anyone with information on this case can call Ontario police at 909-986-6711 or Crum at 909-395-2848.

RIVERSIDE SB man jumps to death from freeway bridge

A San Bernardino man jumped to his death off a freeway bridge Tuesday in Riverside.

The 41-year-old man, whose name wasn’t released because his relatives hadn’t been notified, died on the eastbound 60 Freeway at 10:35 a.m., Riverside County coroner’s officials said.

The man jumped off a bridge where the 91, 215 and 60 freeways meet.

BLOOMINGTON Suspect back in county for trial in 2007 killing

Two years after an 18-year-old man was shot to death on a Bloomington street corner, investigators have extradited a state prisoner back to the area to face a murder charge.

Eric Rivera, 25, of Colton, was booked Tuesday at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga after being transferred from a state prison in Wasco. He is being held without bail.

Sheriff’s detectives say Rivera was the gunman who killed Andrew Kratt on Aug. 4, 2007, as he sat on the corner of Linden and Seventh Street in Bloomington. The boys he was with, ages 13 and 14, were not wounded in the shooting.

A gunman wearing a black and white bandanna asked Kratt where he was from. As Kratt answered, the man pulled out a handgun and opened fire. No motive has been released in the slaying.

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